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Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 18:42:28 -0500
To: "Keith Spencer" <bsd@smmc.qld.edu.au>
From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net>
Subject: Re: Routing a LAN
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At 08:33 AM 9/23/97 +1000, you wrote:
>HI all,
>I am getting there...Brian told me how to ppp -alias to allow my LAN 
>to route out.  They do have static c class IPs though.
>is ppp -alias still whats needed in this situation?
>For a small 20 box LAN do I need named running or will a hosts file 
>do?

Have you read http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/ppp.html. I've currently
have a packard bell(ugh) 486/66 running ppp -alias, running on 56k modem,
works great! You'll need to edit ppp.conf for auto dial, then I add "ppp
-alias -auto sitename" to you rc.local with the auto switch set, the bsd
box will dialout whenever there's tcp traffic. From my experience you can't
ping machines on the lan, but all other tcp services work(cept for quake :(
). As for the proxy, that depends on your link-out and the load...

Later
>With ppp -alias  can a remote internet machine Ping in to a box on my 
>LAN? I suspect not.
>Should I run squid as well? I know its a proxy server and so should 
>save bandwidth no?
>Thanks for your patience and help...you have gotten me a LONG way 
>down the bsd track...2 weeks ago I had 2 CDs a box and a very large 
>question mark  ; ^  )
>Thanks
>
>
>
>Keith Spencer
>Teacher...St Margaret Marys College
>Townsville Australia
>
>